Taylor Tops Spotify
- Spotify's streaming tallies name Taylor Swift the platform's most‑streamed artist ever, per pop-music tracking posts. (x.com) - The same reporting put Bad Bunny at #2 overall and credited 'Un Verano Sin Ti' as Spotify's most-streamed album. ( ) - The milestone reflects long-term catalog listening combined with tour and release-driven spikes on the platform. (x.com)
Taylor Swift is now Spotify’s most-streamed artist ever, according to the platform’s first all-time rankings released Thursday, April 23. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify published the list as part of its 20th-anniversary rollout and said the rankings reflect global streams logged through April 2026. Bad Bunny ranked No. 2 among artists, followed by Drake, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande. (newsroom.spotify.com) The same Spotify list put Bad Bunny’s 2022 album *Un Verano Sin Ti* at No. 1 among the platform’s most-streamed albums of all time. The next four were *Starboy* by The Weeknd, *÷ (Deluxe)* by Ed Sheeran, *SOUR* by Olivia Rodrigo and *After Hours* by The Weeknd. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify’s all-time charts measure cumulative listening, not a single release week or a single year. The company said the rankings were drawn from years of listening across “hundreds of millions” of fans worldwide. (newsroom.spotify.com) Swift’s lead also follows a run of recent Spotify highs. In 2024 Wrapped, Spotify said she was its top global artist of the year with more than 26.6 billion streams. (newsroom.spotify.com) Her 2024 album *The Tortured Poets Department* also drove a large one-day spike on the service. Spotify said the album became the first in its history to clear 300 million streams in a single day on April 19, 2024. (newsroom.spotify.com) Those release surges landed on top of a catalog that stayed in heavy rotation during and after the Eras Tour. Swift’s tour ran from March 17, 2023, to December 8, 2024, across 149 shows in 51 cities, extending her songs’ visibility deep into the streaming era. (wikipedia.org) The rankings also arrived as Spotify itself kept getting bigger. The company said it ended 2025 with 751 million monthly active users and 290 million Premium subscribers, its highest quarterly net adds for users. (newsroom.spotify.com) So the milestone says two things at once in April 2026: Swift has the deepest artist total on Spotify, and Bad Bunny still owns the album that listeners have played more than any other. (newsroom.spotify.com)
